In order to fight spam successfully, we need more than just anti-spam solutions protecting users’ inboxes &mdash; we also need the proactive involvement of law enforcement agencies in catching spammers and shutting down their spambot networks.

Modern cybercrime has grown and evolved so much that it is now comparable to other organized illegal activities such as drug and weapons trafficking in terms of monies gained and laundered. No matter how worthless users’ personal data or online accounts may seem, they are a potential...

Kaspersky Lab has urged smartphone users to be more vigilant against the growing menace of mobile malware, especially if it threatens to compromise sensitive corporate information. In January 2011, Kaspersky Lab recorded 154 different mobile malware families with 1,046 strains, two per cent...

Speaking at CeBIT, Kaspersky Lab CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky predicted increased professionalism for the mobile malware cybercrime sphere. Today mobile devices are used increasingly to access the Internet, and sensitive transactions such as online banking are carried out more and...